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CONCEPT PAPER
It provides an overview of the project and helps funding agencies eliminate proposals that are likely
to be disapproved.
It helps save time and effort for both the proponents and the funding agencies.
It can be helpful in addressing social issues especially since they aim to show solutions to tangible
issues which plague the society.
i. Informal Definition
e.g. Tocopherol (Vitamin E) is naturally found in vegetable oil, fish and nuts.
2. Explication
It is a method of explanation in which sentences, verses, quotes, or passage are taken from a literary
or academic work and then interpreted and explained in a detailed way.
It needs to clearly present the thesis in the introduction and follow it up by analyzing and explaining
how the text was constructed.
It should end with a concise conclusion by restating the thesis and major arguments.
Explication of “The Road Not Taken”
The poem titled “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about a man reflecting on a choice he once
made. While the outcome of this choice is not implied to be positive or negative, the speaker notes that the
choice in itself and the consequences of that choice have made a huge difference in the way his life has
unfolded.
The poem is about the importance of choices. The poem begins with the speaker regretting that he
could have not been two people so he could have at some point in his life taken two roads instead of being
confined to one. He looked as far as he could to see what was ahead on one of the roads he could have taken,
but he was limited to seeing only as far as where it turned and disappeared in the bushes. In the second stanza,
he says that he took the other road because it was grassy and was possibly better because it was less travelled,
though not much more than the other road. The third stanza says that both roads were covered by leaves that
had been walked on infrequently, to the extent that the leaves covering them had not been made black from
tramping feet. He also says he continued on the road he chose, and because he knew that on letting leads to
another (“way leads on to way”) he doubted he would ever return to his part of the road. Finally, he says that
he will tell the story when he is much older. (“Somewhere ages and ages hence”) that he had the choice of
taking one road over another, and having taken the one he did made a big difference in his life.
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3. Clarification
It is a method of explanation in which the points are organized from a general abstract idea to
specific and concrete examples.
It entails the analysis of the concept by looking at the examples and specifying some if its
characteristics to arrive at one working definition which can be used throughout the paper.